Nvidia’s SchedMD acquisition puts open-source AI scheduling under scrutiny

With Nvidia now controlling Slurm’s roadmap, enterprises running mixed-vendor GPU clusters are asking whether open-source guarantees are enough.

Nvidia acquisition of SchedMD sparks worry among AI specialists about software access

By Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis TORONTO/SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 (Reuters) - A niche acquisition by Nvidia has raised ...

SambaNova and Intel Announce Blueprint for Heterogeneous Inference: GPUs for Prefill, SambaNova RDUs for Decode, and Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 CPUs for Agentic Tools

The jointly engineered architecture is centered on Intel Xeon 6 processors and SambaNova RDUs. The SN50 RDU is designed to change the tokenomics of inference, delivering high--throughput, low--latency ...
Hackaday

Implementing A Rhythm Game Entirely In A GPU Shader

Most rhythm games have a community creating custom charts, and Trombone Champ is no exception. What is exceptional, however, ...
Virtualization Review

Running AI Natively on Windows 11 Using an eGPU

Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...